Retainer Drop Rates (Field Exploration XIII Ventures)Follow

Quite interesting that the light steel plate can be found on the DoL classes. 383 sounds right for XIII, yes. I think ~320 is the req. for XII

If you are doing XIII's on DoL it would be good to tally the drops so you can get some percentages out there.

[quote=Valkayree] New update (And new, less space consuming format) from 4/29. Marauder brought home my fourth minion. Also data from my first XII Miner venture.

Ilvl 77 Arcanist
XIII Field Exploration Venture

HQ Coeurl Meat Drop Rate:
41.7% (5/12)
HQ Hippogryph Skins Drop Rate:
33.3% (4/12)
Minion Drop Rate:
16.7% (2/12)
Taffeta Cloth Drop Rate:
8.3% (1/12)
Light Steel Plate Drop Rate:
0% (0/12)

Ilvl 73 Marauder
XIII Field Exploration Venture

HQ Coeurl Meat Drop Rate:
40.0% (4/10)
HQ Hippogryph Skins Drop Rate:
30.0% (3/10)
Minion Drop Rate:
20.0% (2/10)
Taffeta Cloth Drop Rate:
10.0% (1/10)
Light Steel Plate Drop Rate:
0% (0/12)

lvl 50 Miner
XII Field Exploration Venture

1. 3 HQ Gold Ore

More to come.

Yup, it was XIII, I forgot to write down the item she came back with last night, but it was garbage (I will know it when I see it again, and will let you know).

And with My FC we actually have a running joke about the retainers while leveling up. They are actually thieves, running around stealing whatever they can get, and when they can't get something, they just bring back a fish...

Mine has brought back... On quick (my fisher, which is still working on getting to 50...) brought me my MogBlade, and my Garuda Axe... Which has actually given me more Primal Weapons than the primals themselves gave me (that I could use)... And I have played since 1.0 (ok, I refused to do the primal spam...)

I am now:
1/3 Light Steel Plate
2/3 HQ Trillium x3

Update from 5/4/14. Really non-lucrative weekend. Doesn't matter though, the market appears to have dried up. No one is buying anything, and while the supply is slow but constant, the demand has leveled off. Glad I got in there early.

Ilvl 77 Arcanist
XIII Field Exploration Venture

HQ Coeurl Meat Drop Rate:
38.9% (7/18)
HQ Hippogryph Skins Drop Rate:
44.4% (8/18)
Minion Drop Rate:
11.1% (2/18)
Taffeta Cloth Drop Rate:
5.6% (1/18)
Light Steel Plate Drop Rate:
0% (0/18)

Ilvl 73 Marauder
XIII Field Exploration Venture

HQ Coeurl Meat Drop Rate:
43.8% (7/16)
HQ Hippogryph Skins Drop Rate:
37.5% (6/16)
Minion Drop Rate:
12.5% (2/16)
Taffeta Cloth Drop Rate:
6.2% (1/16)
Light Steel Plate Drop Rate:
0% (0/16)

lvl 50 Miner
XII Field Exploration Venture

1. 3 HQ Gold Ore
2. 2 HQ Gold Sand
3. 3 HQ Volcanic Rock Salt
4. 3 HQ Astral Rock
5. 2 HQ Darksteel Ore
6. 2 HQ Gold Sand
7. 3 HQ Darksteel Ore

Update from 5/5/14. On a losing streak here. Hope my luck picks up.

Ilvl 77 Arcanist
XIII Field Exploration Venture

HQ Coeurl Meat Drop Rate:
36.8% (7/19)
HQ Hippogryph Skins Drop Rate:
47.4% (9/19)
Minion Drop Rate:
10.5% (2/19)
Taffeta Cloth Drop Rate:
5.3% (1/19)
Light Steel Plate Drop Rate:
0% (0/19)

Ilvl 73 Marauder
XIII Field Exploration Venture

HQ Coeurl Meat Drop Rate:
47.1% (8/17)
HQ Hippogryph Skins Drop Rate:
35.3% (6/17)
Minion Drop Rate:
11.8% (2/17)
Taffeta Cloth Drop Rate:
5.9% (1/17)
Light Steel Plate Drop Rate:
0% (0/17)

lvl 50 Miner
XII Field Exploration Venture

1. 3 HQ Gold Ore
2. 2 HQ Gold Sand
3. 3 HQ Volcanic Rock Salt
4. 3 HQ Astral Rock
5. 2 HQ Darksteel Ore
6. 2 HQ Gold Sand
7. 3 HQ Darksteel Ore
8. 3 HQ Gold Ore

5/8 update. Given up hope on my miner. I found out that I could equip him with my AF tool and then go to the calamity salvager and buy a new one for my character, which was cool, but he is nowhere near XIII level gathering yet. So until I can find enough guerdon to push him past 380 gathering, I'm running him on quick ventures, since otherwise the XII stuff he brings back is not valuable. I would like to see more of the unique ex lvl 70 pvp gear. Got the healer's hat the other day from a quick venture drop and that made me excited, since those things take forever to farm and I dont pvp ever.

Interesting note, I upgraded my black mage's belt to the ilvl 100 version, so I threw the hero's belt on the ACN retainer. Pushed the Arcanist retainer to ilvl 80. First XIII mission at ilvl 80, came back with a Tawny Latex! Worth about 65k, it can also be bought for 150 myth tomes and is used to make Terminus Putty (The putty where everyone who arrives, survives ). Cool stuff, I wonder if this is the beginning of a bunch of ilvl 80 cool stuff. We will see. And I hope so, since 60k per 18 hours would be definitely welcome. As of now, prices on taffeta cloth, light steel plate, and the minon have tanked on Lamia and are no longer worth the dismal drop rate since so many people now have XIII ventures going.

Ilvl 80 Arcanist
XIII Field Exploration Venture

HQ Coeurl Meat Drop Rate:
33.3% (7/21)
HQ Hippogryph Skins Drop Rate:
47.6% (10/21)
Minion Drop Rate:
9.5% (2/21)
Taffeta Cloth Drop Rate:
4.8% (1/21)
Light Steel Plate Drop Rate:
0% (0/21)
Tawny Latex (ilvl 80 only?)
4.8 (1/21)


Ilvl 73 Marauder
XIII Field Exploration Venture

HQ Coeurl Meat Drop Rate:
47.4% (9/19)
HQ Hippogryph Skins Drop Rate:
36.8% (7/19)
Minion Drop Rate:
10.5% (2/19)
Taffeta Cloth Drop Rate:
5.3% (1/19)
Light Steel Plate Drop Rate:
0% (0/19)
Tawny Latex
0% (0/19)


lvl 50 Miner
XII Field Exploration Venture

1. 3 HQ Gold Ore
2. 2 HQ Gold Sand
3. 3 HQ Volcanic Rock Salt
4. 3 HQ Astral Rock
5. 2 HQ Darksteel Ore
6. 2 HQ Gold Sand
7. 3 HQ Darksteel Ore
8. 3 HQ Gold Ore
9. 3 HQ Astral Rock

Edited, May 8th 2014 9:50am by Valkayree

Goes well! I have been paying attention to the Eorzea clock, and if it is within an hour of 5am I will port to West Than and take a 2 minute chocobo to silver bazaar. I'll hop off right before I get there and check for unspoiled nodes and grab a thanalan soil III and about 5 water clusters. Saves 20k each time.

Otherwise, the server first glazenut seets and glazenuts are insanely priced right now, and apricot and royal kukuru are not available. When they are, for not less than 100k, so we need to farm the honey lemon seeds and keep buying almond seeds to cross breed into Apricot (what I am doing now), so you can then cross breed the apricot with the honey lemon to get the royal kukuru ( fortunately did that already and I think we have 5 seeds from that big batch a week ago).

So once I get the apricots from this round, I will cross breed the seeds with royal kukuru (and honey lemon on the other side of the kukuru since I am not exactly sure whether the formula for glazenuts is apricot / royal kukuru or royal kukuru / honey lemon) and we will get some glazenut seeds. But I wont stop there. I anticipate 1 glazenut seed (at least) from the harvest, but since I will have hopefully at least 2 apricot, we might get 2 seeds if we are lucky. I will plant the glazenut seeds individually with the soil that increases crop yield and harvest a crapton of glazenuts (not exactly sure the metric equivalent of a crapton at this moment) and pop them on the market for 1-2 million each. Wishful thinking on two glazenut seeds will leave us with 24 glazenuts (assuming 12 per yield as the other crops, but they wouldn't make it that easy, would they?). Our current batch of crops will be done in 1-2 days, and then I plant for glazenuts, which will take 6 days. After that, we have another 6 days for the glazenut harvest. After that I put them up on the market, and all proceeds go towards the new house. At least that is the plan.

So, I have had a Botanist and Fisher going for a bit now with XIII dailies, and I have yet to get a minion...

Are they only obtainable through Combat Classes, or am I just incredibly unlucky at this point?

5/9 update.

Ilvl 81 Arcanist
XIII Field Exploration Venture

HQ Coeurl Meat Drop Rate:
(8/24)
HQ Hippogryph Skins Drop Rate:
(10/24)
Minion Drop Rate:
(4/24)
Taffeta Cloth Drop Rate:
(1/24)
Light Steel Plate Drop Rate:
(0/24)
Tawny Latex
(1/24)


Ilvl 73 Marauder
XIII Field Exploration Venture

HQ Coeurl Meat Drop Rate:
(10/22)
HQ Hippogryph Skins Drop Rate:
(7/22)
Minion Drop Rate:
(2/22)
Taffeta Cloth Drop Rate:
(2/22)
Light Steel Plate Drop Rate:
(1/22)
Tawny Latex
(0/22)


lvl 50 Miner
XII Field Exploration Venture

1. 3 HQ Gold Ore
2. 2 HQ Gold Sand
3. 3 HQ Volcanic Rock Salt
4. 3 HQ Astral Rock
5. 2 HQ Darksteel Ore
6. 2 HQ Gold Sand
7. 3 HQ Darksteel Ore
8. 3 HQ Gold Ore
9. 3 HQ Astral Rock


Edited, May 13th 2014 9:48am by Valkayree

One of my retainers (combat, I don't remember which) in the i80 range recently brought back a Saurian Hide, to add another possibility to field ventures. I've also seen the tawny latex and usual minions/taffeta/steel, so I'm interested in seeing what else they might find.